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[sanguinity]

I have been adding a SLEW of links to the del.icio.us account -- it's doubled in size in the past few weeks. Some of these links have already shown up on the comm in various places, but a lot of them haven't.

So here, have a sampling of stuff that's been added to the link-list lately:

Children and Young Adult

• African American Children's Book Writers and Illustrators -- association for up-and-coming children's writers and illustrators of color, includes reviews of new books.
  
• Black Threads in Kid's Lit -- African-American kidlit-specific blog of Kyra E. Hicks
  
• Coretta Scott King Book Awards -- Award for African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to literature for children and young adults
  
• Just Us Books -- publisher of Afro-centric children's books (list of featured Black authors)
  
• The Brown Bookshelf -- YA and children's-lit blog written by African-American authors Paula Chase-Hyman, Varian Johnson, Don Tate, Kelly Starling Lyons, and Carla Sarratt.
  
• Asian-American protagonists in YA fiction -- (not all authors are POC, but still a good jumping-off point)
  
• Awesome Non-White Children's Lit: An Introduction -- by fox1013
  
• Awesome Children's and Young Adult Books by Authors of Color and with Characters of Color -- by jadelennox
  
• American Indian Youth Literature Awards -- from American Indian Library Association (not all authors are POC)
  

SF/F

• Carl Brandon Society Awards -- Awards for spec-fic by or about POC (Parallax award winners are POC authors; Kindred award winners may not be)
  • American Indian Heritage Month Reading List
    
  • Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List
    
  • Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reading List
    
  • Black History Month Reading List
• Haikasoru -- Publishing imprint for Japanese SF/F translated into English (article announcing first four titles)
  
• POC SFF Authors and Protagonists, from WisCon 2008 Panel -- (not all authors are POC)
  
• World SF News Blog -- links and news about speculative fiction from around the world. Companion to The First Apex Book of World SF.
  
• Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler
  

LGBT

• Sistahs On The Shelf -- blog devoted to Black lesbian fiction
  
• People of Color in Lesbian Fiction (not all authors are POC)
  
• Redbone Press -- books by and about black lesbians and gay men

Multiracial

• Loving Prize -- annual award for "outstanding artists, storytellers and community leaders for inspirational dedication to celebrating and illuminating the Mixed racial and cultural experience." Many past recipients are authors of mixed-race.
  
• Halvsie - Half Japanese Wiki: Literature

Africa & Caribbean

• Fahamu Books -- African publisher on topics of social justice
  
• African and Caribbean Book Recs -- from livrelibre
  
• South African Literature
  
• New York Public Library: African and Caribbean Literature
  
• Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

Everything Else

• Big List of Awesome Authors, Poets, Playwrights, and Scholars -- denim_queen's list, now 400+ books
  
• Black American Free Thought Association - Suggested Reading List (not all authors are POC)
  
• African American Commercial Reading, Writing, & Publishing -- blog collective of black readers and writers talking about commercial publishing
  
• First Nation Communities Read Program -- library community leading program featuring books by or about First Nation, Métis, or Inuit (not all authors are POC)
  
• Philippine Comics Art Museum -- scanned copies of classic comics by Filipino artists
  
• News From Nowhere -- Liverpool bookseller with excellent selection of POC-authored books. Diverse sublists, including Romani, Asian LGBT, biracial kidlit, British slave trade, much more.
  
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature -- large subsections on African, Caribbean, South African, and Singaporean post-colonial lit
  
• OzLit's list of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers

If you have things you'd like to add to the del.icio.us collection, either drop a link here, or add "50books_poc" to your del.icio.us network, save the link to your del.icio.us account, and tag it "for:50books_poc".

One more thing. On the last links/recs post there is one request which hasn't yet been responded to: good/great historical fiction with a youngish protagonist; books about reservation life. Anyone got any suggestions?

Comments

[sanguinity]

I left out a step in the post, sorry: you have to add 50books_poc to your network, in addition to tagging the link "for:50books_poc". (In the drop-down menus at the top, go to "People" and select "My Network." On the far right-hand-side of the page, near the top, there'll be a light blue box. The second item in that box should say "Add user to network.")

At the moment, the link hasn't come to the 50books_poc inbox yet. Do you want me to just add the link manually, or do you want to add 50books_poc to your network and see if that makes it work?

[pene.livejournal.com]

thank you! no I'll sort it. cheers.